The 1988 Laureates / Creative Arts and Moral Sciences Category / Philosophy, History of Ideas (Ancient Indian and Greek)

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Paul Thieme

West Germany / March 18, 1905-2001
Indologist; Professor Emeritus, University of Tuebingen

Workshop

Forum: "Some Problems in Vedic Studies"

Chairperson: Masaaki Hattori
Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University

Part I
 
 
13:30 
Opening Remarks
Muneo Tokunaga
 
Greetings
Kazuo Inamori
President, The Inamri Foundation
 
Greetings
Shunpei Ueyama
Chairman, Kyoto Prize Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
Director-General, Kyoto National Museum
 
Introduction of Achievement
Masaaki Hattori
13:50 
 
Chairperson:Minoru Hara
 
Lecture
Paul Thieme
Laureate in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences
"On the Khilakãnda of the Satapathabrãhmana"
14:35 
Questions and Answeres
 
Part II
 
 
15:00
Intermission 
 
15:40 
 
Chairperson:Masaaki Hattori
 
Lecture
Ryutaro Tsuchida
Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo
"On the custom of the Vedic opavasa and the origin of the Buddhist uposatha"
16:05
Questions and Answeres
 
16:15
 
Chairperson: Masaaki Hattori
Lecture
Yasuke Ikari
Associate Professor, the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University
"Some Aspects of the Idea of Rebirth in Vedic Literarure"
16:40 
Questions and Answeres
16:50
Closing Remarks
Minoru Hara
17:00 
Closing
 

Workshop Abstract(PDF)